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97 Things Every SRE Should Know
The time lightning struck a Saturn V after launch
Post-Incident Review Issue 2: March 2020
The Post-Incident Review Issue 2: March 2020
It’s a SLO World: What theme parks can teach us about user-first reliability
Pouring one out for the end of O’Reilly’s in-person conferences
Werq from Home: How to Ace Being Remote
How an Alleged Space Strike Demonstrates Work-as-Imagined vs. Work-as-Done
Sleep, Interrupted: Niall Richard Murphy on Taking the Emergency Out of On-Call
Re:LastPass: Security done wrong
on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:51PM (#13942196)
I'm a big fan of 1Password.
Surviving Flashes of High-Write Traffic Using Scriptable Load Balancers
Surviving Flashes of High-Write Traffic Using Scriptable Load Balancers (Pt II)
Re:A Look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:33AM (#9736853)
Here's the talk itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w
Re:Announcing Starfighter
on Monday March 09, 2015 @05:03PM (#9174040)
Will the CTFs be security focused or more non-traditional, like Stripe's distributed systems CTF?
Airpal: Web UI for Facebook's Presto
Re:Show HN: Vulcand – Proxy for microservices and API
on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:29PM (#8653438)
Found this talk really interesting when looking to learn about Vulcand: http://youtu.be/VnsA9q9hKEY
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Facebook's Mcrouter
Re:Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?
on Friday November 14, 2014 @08:37AM (#8607006)
I don't think the issue is as much with the clients as it is with the spam filtering Google provides. The sheer volume of emails they handle allows them to have the best spam filtering in the world. Something, that will be very difficult to duplicate through OSS.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deploy static JavaScript apps?
on Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:45PM (#8570867)
Github Pages has always been good enough for me.
Re:Dropbox is in your Office
on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @10:55AM (#8557141)
This is very peculiar. From past Dropbox acquisitions, one can extrapolate they're almost certainly working on online collaboration tools. I wonder if Dropbox is using this as a way to gain footholds in large enterprise.
Introducing Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed
Re:Ask HN: What OSS projects need the most help with documentation?
on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:26PM (#8552866)
Definitely doesn't need the most help, but there's been a call to action for helping write Rails docs for the 4.2 release: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/16576
Re:Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite
on Monday November 03, 2014 @03:11AM (#8549825)
forced to use that "Verified by" Visa and Mastercard
I'm super sketched out by the program as it appears to be run by a third party rather than Visa/Mastercard.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?
on Sunday November 02, 2014 @12:32AM (#8545635)
It's actually pretty easy once you realize that you have to pay for the licences on all Microsoft technologies once BizSpark ends. It gives just enough time to be too locked in to easily adopt a different technology stack.
Re:Latency numbers
on Saturday November 01, 2014 @01:42PM (#8543872)
Earlier in the summer I decided to create a phone background with these numbers so whenever I had free time I could work on memorizing them: https://twitter.com/EmilStolarsky/status/496298288325599233
Re:Khrushchev visits IBM
on Friday October 31, 2014 @08:46PM (#8541812)
I've been told by family anecdotes that Pepsi & Coke were a prized possession in the USSR. Whenever they were able to acquire a bottle, you would never throw it out immediately after finishing, but rather refill it with water as there was still some residual taste.
Re:Ask HN: Why do you guys work so much?
on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:28PM (#8540635)
I recently happened upon an interview of Elon Musk on his work ethics: http://youtu.be/4Fl9LRgG3_A
The main takeaway was work as hard as you can (i.e. 80 - 100 hour weeks). Even if you're doing the same thing as the competition (assuming they work 40 hours), you'll still accomplish in 4 months what they would in a year. Hard work, tenacity, and a little luck is what separates the smart from the brilliant.
Re:Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean
on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @11:05AM (#8527522)
I feel as though this is one step above just a web page with an email box. Aside from listing a suite of popular OSS, you haven't explained what this app does. Is it similar to Panamax in that it offers you a UI, but only for one box / Flynn or Deis which is trying to create an open source Heroku / something completely different?